[munificent]

That depends on if you define "mainstream" to mean "lots of users" or "similar to the kinds of things with lots of users".

If I write songs that sound like Taylor Swift but no one knows who I am, do I make "mainstream" music? Personally, I would say yes.

[pandler]

> If I write songs that sound like Taylor Swift but no one knows who I am, do I make "mainstream" music? Personally, I would say yes.

You might make mainstream music but you yourself are not mainstream.